Word: magical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...glacial Charles de Gaulle promptly melted. It was not the first time Jackie had worked her magic on the French President; last year, during his trip to Washington. De Gaulle observed with a sigh: "If there were anything I could take back to France with me, it would be Mrs. Kennedy...
...simply messed around with a handful of the last decade's intellectual cliches. He is against materialism, religiosity, and scientism. He is (and I concede the moderate originality of his symbol) for dryads, unifying "earthiness and airiness, mortality and sky, in concrete touchable simplicity." He is for "a natural magic, the marriage of earth and sky." He is, no doubt, also for motherhood, fatherhood, and nut-brown...
...spiritual independence from Wall Street, the Faculty has adopted a policy of not announcing class standings for other than the first 100 students in a class. Although they will still know the applicants' grades, the big-city firms will no longer be able to rely exclusively on these magic numbers which have become rather meaningless because of the great degree of bunching in the middle of the class...
...Wall Street it was a week of excitement-and irony. Just as the Dow-Jones industrial average burst through the magic 700 mark (only a decade ago, the average stood at 250), the 1961 bull and its keepers came under the most embarrassing scrutiny the U.S. stock market has faced in more than 20 years...
Unnerving Mood. Despite such distinguished tutelage. Balthus chose to find his chief mentor in the 19th century realist Gustave Courbet, who said: "Create a suggestive magic that contains both the object and the subject, the world outside the artist and the artist himself." But Balthus was also entranced by the surrealists' probings into the unconscious. He painted streets, landscapes and people, all arranged in a well-thought-out design, all strangely still and silent, all a little unnerving in mood...